Project Description
One Year is a project through which the artist intends to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from his study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when he sits down to work. One Year will annotate each picture with a note of the weather for that morning and the morning’s main news headline from the BBC News site. In addition, there will be a note taking a key sentence or two from the artist’s daily journal.
For full details and artist’s statement go to Week 1 here
October 25th 2013
- Heavy rain
- EU leaders seek US spying talks
- Feel like you know all of your supermarket check-out assistants by their first name? Up to speed with the holidays they’ve got booked and what their kids are up to? Then you probably work from home, like me
October 26th 2013
- Sunny intervals
- Welfare changes for disabled delayed
- To Sheffield for the day…
October 27th 2013
- Light rain shower
- UK braced for worst storm in years
- Goodbye to BST; hello to evenings cloaked in darkness and waking before sunrise
October 28th 2013
- Heavy rain shower
- Homes and power hit as storm peaks
- The trouble with giving your poem a good title is that it tells the reader too much
October 29th 2013
- Sunny
- Energy chiefs under fire in prices
- An apprehension of time – past, present and future – and the capacity to imagine are both integral to the nature of consciousness
October 30th 2013
- Sunny
- Pension fees cap plan unveiled
- A poem about the making of a poem: a meta-poem, one which shows all the wires and pipework, giving a list of the sources and influences, conscious and unconscious, into which the poet taps.
October 31st 2013
- Light cloud
- Energy market review detail expected
- A hint of orange on the eastern horizon, a spark to light the wash of grey sky behind the dark outlines of the trees
“The trouble with giving your poem a good title is that it tells the reader too much”
I tend not to bother, or rather I tend to write books with titles, rather than individual poems.
I like that; in fact I think that if a collection of poems has a unifying title, the individual poems need nothing more than a number, as if to emphasise that one is reading a collection of related poems and not a rag-bag of oddments. That’s not to deny, of course, that there are some very fine rag-bags of oddments out there!
There are some terrific rag-bags out there, but it’s really a question of working methods. I tend to think and work in terms of books, or book-length poems rather than individual lyrics or whatever. Sometimes the book is only six pages long, of course. But it’s still a book, an organic whole, in my mind.